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This video explains the best vegetables for beginners to grow at home, including easy crops that germinate quickly and produce reliable harvests. Learn which vegetables are most forgiving, require minimal maintenance and are ideal for first-time gardeners.
The guide covers vegetables suitable for garden beds, raised beds and containers, along with basic growing requirements such as sunlight, watering and spacing. These beginner-friendly crops help build confidence while providing fresh food throughout the growing season.
If you are starting a vegetable garden for the first time or want simple crops with a high success rate, this video will help you choose the easiest vegetables to grow successfully.
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hello and welcome to gardening with Ben
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your go-to podcast for all things green
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and growing I'm Ben your alotment guide
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just starting out this podcast is for
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have been up to on the alarm so sit back
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grab a brute and enjoy today's
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben well it's Wednesday
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already happy hump day everybody it
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doesn't feel like Wednesday at all
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because I'm recording this on
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Monday but no happy Wednesday everybody
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hopefully we got some snow that's what
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I'm hoping for as I'm recording this on
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Monday uh the forecast is due for snow
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in a couple of hours time just at 7:00
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so I'm recording this at Monday at 5: so
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ready for your Wednesday episode but
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hopefully we manage to get some snow
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fingers crossed and I do love some snow
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but I'm glad I managed to get all my
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geraniums in on time and all my bulbs in
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and my garlics in so this cold weather
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will help obviously all the garlic all
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the spring bulbs and stuff like that
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it'll say now come on time to wake up
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time to do your magic and get
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working so hopefully we have had
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some snow so yes let's get back to
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pretending that it's Wednesday happy
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Wednesday
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everybody I do make myself laugh I hope
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I make you laugh as well but yeah
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welcome back to today's episode I hope
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that you're all having a a fantastic
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week I'm certainly looking forward to
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the weekend as it's my mom's birthday
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and having a party so hopefully I'll be
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out and be able to have a fun time on
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Saturday night have a few drinks and
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enjoy my family
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time so today's topic what we are
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talking about is how can you choose the
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best seats for
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2025 that is today's
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question well
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it's always hard to try different
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varieties and know which ones are the
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best varieties to try as there's loads
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of different varieties of vegetables
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when you go to the Garden Center or go
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to a DIY store they'll just have the
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standard varieties which everybody knows
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and loves they won't have ones that you
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can experiment with and try new ones
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with and sometimes it is good to
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experiment and try with different
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different varieties to see how well they
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actually grow and sometimes it's the
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weird and wonderful varieties that do
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better than the normal varieties and one
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of the ways that we can learn to try
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different varieties is by either having
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a look on a seed website where you can
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buy seeds from obviously Amazon you can
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buy different varieties from there and
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another way which I used to do is I used
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to get
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the gardening magazines I used to get
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grow your own magazine and the kitchen
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Garden Magazine and I don't know if this
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still do but I've not uh purchased them
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for a bit but you used to get 10 free
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packets of seeds with each magazine and
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the best thing about that is that you
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get stuff what you probably wouldn't
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usually try and if you if you're like me
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and you've got seeds in a bag you'll
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think oh I might as well give that a try
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see what happens with it see if it grows
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there's no loss with trying it
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out and that's what I did with my purple
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purple C cauliflower let me split my
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words out purple cauliflower like if i'
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have gone into a sou uh into a garden
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center I wouldn't have tried the purple
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variety of cauliflower and I find that
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one a lot easier to grow than the white
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cauliflower so you do learn different
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things on
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of different
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varieties and it's good to experiment
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every year when I'm growing my produce
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on my alotment I think of what am I
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going to try this year something
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different as I always like to try
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something new
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and one of the years I decided I'm going
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to grow all different varieties of
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squash as there's lots of different
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varieties out there there's obviously
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pumpkins different varieties of butut
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squash there's all different varieties
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out there so I went online and just
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searched for the different varieties out
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there to give them a try and yes it
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obviously cost money to buy seeds and
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stuff like that but you don't know how
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good the varieties are until you give
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them a try and see what they actually
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grow like even if you don't eat them or
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if it's just for fun it's always good to
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just try little new things out there and
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I did this with growing squash I've done
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it with
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growing beans I've done it with growing
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tomatoes I've never done different
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cucumbers for I might have to try that
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one yet I've never grown Telegraph
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cucumbers I've always stuck to the
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market Mo varieties out there because
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Market Mo are
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good good Cropper so I might actually
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try Telegraph cucumbers one year and see
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how well the they actually grow and
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whether they grow any different if it's
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easier to grow like I say you don't know
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different varieties until you try them
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so looking out for the best varieties
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for
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2025 is I'd say just experiment and have
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a look around and just see what
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different things you want to give a try
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the best way sometimes to look for
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different varieties to try and grow is
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often by ordering a seed magazine as
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obviously you can see what the like on
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there and sometimes seed magazines are a
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lot easier to navigate than websites as
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sometimes you look on websites and
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they're all over the place hard to
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navigate hard to find what you're
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looking for so seed magazines are often
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pretty useful and yeah I've got to say
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if you're trying a new variety next year
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let me know what you want to try and let
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me know how you get on I'm definitely
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going to experiment and try some
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different things out next year and just
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see how see how it all grows to be
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honest and see if we get a good
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outcome I don't really know what type of
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thing to try next year whether it be
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different varieties of carrots different
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varieties of beetroot as there's more
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beetroot out there than you can imagine
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there's even multicolored beetroot as
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well as multicolored Cavs but yeah we're
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going to give it a good try next year
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and hopefully get some amazing results
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so all I can give you the tips and
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advice for finding the best varieties
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for
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2025 is have a look around experiment
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try new things out and ask other
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allotments as well like try and grow one
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variety and swap it with one of your
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neighbors on your allotment like share
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them with a few varieties and they might
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swap you some back as well that's a good
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way of trying new things out so I hope
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you found this useful go out there and
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experiment try different varieties of
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things that you would never see in the
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supermarket or in the shop and let me
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know how you get on so until next time
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everyone remember keep smiling keep
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shining and keep gardening with Ben
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everyone thank you for joining me on
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